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Sat 03 Mar 2003Child star in a cast of ghosts
Fiction: It begins with a dead body, and it ends with another corpse, but Personality is concerned with many varieties of death, most particularly perhaps the failure of illusion and the shallow comfort of dreams, writes Eileen Battersby.
Billed as one of the best of the current generation of Britain's younger novelists - which in itself might not mean all that much - Scot Andrew O'Hagan is easily among the most intelligent. He has a sense of justice as well as a sensitivity that is far closer to humanity than sentimentality.
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